The last month has been…complicated. Between getting the last of the firewood cut and a bunch of other stuff, I’ve felt like I’ve been running, running, running. And then there’s been this past week. Not going to say anything more … Continue reading...

First of all, welcome to the new subscribers from the Liminal Fiction ebook list! I send this newsletter out once a month, sometime around the end of the month/first part of the next month. This newsletter is late in part because of...events, in part...

Becoming Solo is one of my favorite little works because it’s rooted so strongly in my past experiences. No, I wasn’t part of a family spell matrix, nor did I undergo the sort of family dynamics that my character Yesenia … Continue reading →

Sometimes anniversaries sneak up on you. We are halfway through our tenth year of cutting firewood for heating our house–earlier in the year we didn’t think this was going to happen at all, but things changed and we’re cutting wood … Continue reading...

Hi everyone! The newsletter is running a bit late this time because, well...three trips for routine medical stuff over three weeks. One of those trips wasn't routine because I finally am getting my second cataract dealt with, except for the actual sc...

I’ve been really satisfied with how things are going with the horses as we move into fall. Mocha is holding her weight nicely, and now that she gobbles up her supplement she’s starting to get a little shine on her … Continue reading →

This rant got set off by a thread from Xitter, whereupon a person in an English lit grad program was openly mocked by a prof for their dislike of a particular white male author in the sainted canon. Publicly. And … Continue reading →

It seems as if fall just sneaks up on me over the past few years. Once, it meant back to school, first as student, then parent, then teacher. But it always seemed as if those first few weeks were hot … Continue reading →

I guess you could title these two photos as what a difference a year makes. In the first photo, I had no idea that I was working with a gaited horse. I just knew I had an unknown horse of … Continue reading →

Burnout. That’s something we all dance with as writers. I hit the wall late last fall and didn’t work my way past burnout until just recently. Oh, I could keep writing on the work-in-progress, though it felt like a slog … Continue reading →

Yep, I got the trilogy finished and uploaded. Due to a glitch on the part of me, the publishing schedule is all out of whack. Instead of scheduling Crucible for prerelease on September 10th as originally planned, I released it on Draft2Digital and pu...

  (vector by happymay, from Depositphotos, uploaded in 2014) So why is it that it took until I was sixty-six years old to regularly start making my bed without being prompted? Until recently, I had the attitude toward housework as … Continue reading...

I learn something new from every book I write, even after twenty-five odd books out there. Sometimes what I learn is a writing craft detail. Other times it’s a production or promotion detail. I’ve learned a lot from the last … Continue reading →

 Sometimes you just can’t keep a good character down. Mike Martiniere sandbagged me when I wrote the first Martiniere Legacy books, appearing as the five-year-old clone of Philip Martiniere in Realization. He kept nagging at me until I wrote his...

It's been fiery and smoky for most of July. Fortunately it hasn't been too horrific but still...between smoke, heat, and water drop planes, I'm ready for the summer to be DONE. There's been several days where the steady flights have been reminiscent...